a simple question how do you make your selve look hobbitish or elvish

[maikafanawen]

Do you mean how do you make yourself look hobbit like or elf like in an every day sense? Or for costume purposes alone? I only know a bit about costume purposes for hobbits:

For He-Hobbit style dress: It's mainly old english dress. You have the white linen shirts and motif embroidered, button up vests with tail coats all in colors that are earthy tones. For the pants you have crabdigger, or below-the-knee length breeches of mostly just dark brown to go with everything. One may have a pair of dark green. No shoes, obviously. One might also own an ankle length cape to wear on hobbit-walking parties.

For She-Hobbit style dress: One would wear simple dresses with a bodice, ruffled sleeves, and a wide skirt layered with underpetticoats. Adorning the dress are small and simple forms of lace and other sort of decor. The colors would be earth tones but one could also wear light purples, blues, and pale yellows in plaids, floral, and solid designs. Over a she-hobbit's skirt an apron would be tied as she goes about her every day duties such as cooking, gardening, and raising young hobbits. Her hair would be curled and either braided down the back, put up in a comforatable bun, clasped in the back to keep the whisps out of her face or let loose down her back.

Elf dress is a bit more varied depending on the race and duty of the elf. Of this I know little about.

-Maikafanawen

[ June 21, 2003: Message edited by: maikafanawen ]